The Missouri Reader Vol. 38, Issue 1 | Page 26

The Fault in Our Stars

by John Green

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard

by Leslea Newman

Monument 14

by Emmy Laybourne

The List

by Siobhann Vivian

2013 Young Adults' Choices

Common Core State Standards Addressed

- RL.6.3: Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.

- RL.7.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

- RL.7.3: Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).

- RL.8.3: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

- RL.9-10.1: Cite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

- RL.11-12.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text, including determining where the text leaves matters uncertain.

- RL.9-10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of text.

- RL.11-12.2: Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their developmen over the course of a text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide an objective summary of text.

- RL.11-12.3: Analyze the impact of the author's choices regarding how to develop and relate elements of a story or drama (e.g., where a story is set, how the action is ordered, how the characters are introduced and developed).

- RL.9-10.5: Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulates time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

-RL.11-12.5: Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure specific parts of a text (e.g., the choice of where to begin or end a story, the choice to provide a comedic or tragic resolution) contribute to its overall structure and meaning as well as its aesthetic impact.

- RL.9-10.1: Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

- RL.9-10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details, provide an objective summary of text.

- RL.9-10.3: Analyze how complex characters (those with multiple or conlicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

- RL.9-10.2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details, provide an objective summary of text.

- RL.9-10.3: Analyze how complex characters (those with multiple or conlicting motivations) develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot or develop the theme.

- RL.9-10.5: Analyze how an author's choices concerning how to structure a text, order events within it (e.g., parallel plots), and manipulate time (e.g., pacing, flashbacks) create such effects as mystery, tension, or surprise.

- W.9-10.3b: Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, description, reflection, and multiple plot lines, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.

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